Engine of the World
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In 1760 the world was still lit by fire and muscle, and had been, in its essentials, for thousands of years — poor, slow, dark, and bounded by the annual gift of the sun. A century and a half later it was unrecognisable: a world of factories and railways, of steel and electricity, of crowded cities and mass-produced goods, of sustained growth that had, for the first time in history, begun to lift ...
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In 1760 the world was still lit by fire and muscle, and had been, in its essentials, for thousands of years — poor, slow, dark, and bounded by the annual gift of the sun. A century and a half later it was unrecognisable: a world of factories and railways, of steel and electricity, of crowded cities and mass-produced goods, of sustained growth that had, for the first time in history, begun to lift ...
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